[Buildingdata] Re: Ex-buildings

[Ian Stuart]

On 12/12/11 14:57, Nick Gibbins wrote:
> What happens when the University builds a new building with the
> number 86?
What happens when Building 42 is renamed Building 42a?
Is there a concept of timeliness (when they start & when the end) to names?

>
> Nick
>
> On 12 Dec 2011, at 14:53, Christopher Gutteridge wrote:
>
>> I've just seen a portacabin building dismantled;
>> http://data.southampton.ac.uk/building/86.html is gone!!
>>
>> I'm wondering if it makes sense to have a class for ex-buildings, so
>> that if something refers to it, it's explicitly a demolished building
>> (well, carried away on trucks in our case) rather than just a 404.



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